NEW DELHI: Cricketer-turned-politician
Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday reached
Pakistan to attend the the
swearing-in ceremony of
Imran Khan.
Hoping that the relations of India and Pakistan would improve, the
Punjab cabinet minister said, "I am going to Pakistan as a goodwill ambassador. I am going there with the hope that relations between our two nations will improve."
Sidhu crossed over to
Lahore via the Attari-Wagah border.
After reaching Lahore, Sidhu talking to the Pakistani media said that he had come to the country with "message of love".
Sidhu, along with other cricketers, had been invited by Imran Khan for his swearing-in ceremony.
Earlier, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy had said Sidhu was not mentally stable, following the latter's decision to attend Pakistan's Prime Minister-designate Imran Khan's swearing-in.
He said, "I don't think Sidhu is of a stable mind. If he had some basic sense, he would not go to Pakistan to attend the swearing-in of Imran Khan. If he goes, people will see this as an act of betrayal, nobody will forgive him."
PTI chief's swearing-in ceremony is scheduled to take place on August 18.
